The boys review and discuss pride, and the other deadly sins, but first they drink and review New South Brewing's Dark Star, a very delicious and slightly robust porter.

The Catholic Church tells us there are seven deadly sins: pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth.

P&C talk through the seven deadly sins, and how modern people view these sins. Nowadays, pride is considered a good thing. Which of the other deadly sins has modernity embraced?

The boys drink and review a red ale from New South Brewing, our friends in Myrtle Beach.

This show follows a different format for Pigweed and Crowhill. The boys simply review headlines from The Babylon Bee, which is a satire site that seems to have a better sense of the true meaning of the news than most news sites. They show how ridiculous most of the regular news is.

What's with the attacks on Christopher Columbus? Why do we celebrate this particular Italian? And, on the other hand, how do we interpret the Columbus protesters / haters?

Columbus is a 15th century man in a 21st century court, being judged by outraged woke virtue signalers with no historical perspective.

What did they expect Columbus to do? Or the Europeans in general?

They came to the new world and found slavery, human sacrifice and cannibalism. Were they supposed to endorse that?

In pursuit of the almighty dollar, it seems everyone is self-censoring to please the communist Chinese -- from the NBA to Disney. South Park (rightly) criticized the NBA and was immediately scrubbed in China. 

China manipulates currency, steals our intellectual property, spies on us, cracks down on peaceful Hong Kong protesters, and is trying to become the world's dominant superpower, but ... hey? The NBA has to make a buck, right?

Celebrities are condemning one another for being nice to people!

You have to show your liberal qualifications by who you hate, who you refuse to sit with, eat with, or talk to.

Ellen DeGeneres committed the horrible sin of being friends with George W. Bush, and didn't back down when criticized! Good for her. We need more people with that kind of character. And then Elton John defended her as well.

Closing music, "Adventure," from https://www.royaltyfree-music.com

It's bad enough that politicians use "it's for the children" as a prop for their policies. But the trend in using children has gone through fazes. 

* "It's for the children," then 

* using the children to write letters to congressmen, then 

* calling children as "expert witnesses," then 

* scaring the crap out of children so they can wag their fingers at the horrible adults. 

The boys review and comment.

In this latest issue of "Newz and Booze," Pigweed previews the new Joker movie -- without having seen it. Since movies have mined the superhero world relentlessly, this is the next step. To make heroes out of villains. Are they trying to normalize monstrosity?

Arthur Fleck (the joker) is not a sympathetic character. He's a loser in many ways. His response is to lash out in violence. "Look at what you made me do."

The three irreducible principles of western civilization are these.

The rule of law. The government cannot use law as an instrument of force and control. “Law” is king, and exists on a higher plane. A just law is the birthright of every citizen.

Personal liberty. People are free to do as they please, and someone who wants to restrict freedom has to prove why that is in the common interest.

Government should represent the people, and people have a say in the laws under which they live.

Are humans alone in the universe?

The boys discuss the Fermi paradox. If there are so many stars with planets, where's all the intelligent life? Why haven't we heard from them?

Crowhill says it's the worst of inductive reasoning, since we only have one example of intelligence.

A related idea is the Drake equation, which tries to work all this into an actual equation with numbers, which is a good idea!

Is the planet over populated? Paul Ehrlich, who took Malthus' ideas and ran with them, made a lot of scary predictions. Earth Day 1970 saw an increase in the worries about the future, and almost none of them have come to pass.

These end of the world predictions have failed fantastically. Why? And why do people keep falling for them?

Now we have academics saying cannibalism might be the answer. Where do we get these nuts? And what's the real solution to over population?